Cercaria Definition

sər-kârē-ə
cercariae, cercaria
noun
The free-swimming larva of a parasitic trematode worm.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Cercaria

Noun

Singular:
cercaria
Plural:
cercariae

Origin of Cercaria

  • New Latin cercāria Greek kerkos tail -āria feminine of Latin -ārius -ary

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Cercaria Sentence Examples

  • By a process of infolding, the thicker end is partially invaginated, the middle portion or " hind-body " and the organism may now present a superficial likeness to a cercaria.

  • D, An adult redia, containing a daughter-redia, two almost mature cercariae, and germs. E, A free cercaria.

  • It escapes into the adjacent tissue and there gives rise either to one or more generations of rediae or at once to a new type of organism - the cercaria.

  • What determines the origin of the cercaria rather than a new generation of rediae is unknown.

  • The cercaria is just visible to the naked eye and has an oval or discoidal body and usually a long tail of variable form.

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Words Starting With

CCECER

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AIARIA

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